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Erasmus and the Age of Reformation

by Johan Huizinga

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  1. Chapter I. CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH, 1466-88

    19:00

  2. Chapter II. IN THE MONASTERY, 1488-95

    23:00

  3. Chapter III. THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS, 1495-9

    21:15

  4. Chapter IV. FIRST STAY IN ENGLAND, 1499-1500

    25:04

  5. Chapter V. ERASMUS AS A HUMANIST

    19:31

  6. Chapter VI. THEOLOGICAL ASPIRATIONS, 1501

    17:08

  7. Chapter VII. YEARS OF TROUBLE - LOUVAIN, PARIS, ENGLAND, 1502-6

    17:58

  8. Chapter VIII. IN ITALY, 1506-9

    18:55

  9. Chapter IX. THE PRAISE OF FOLLY

    27:24

  10. Chapter X. THIRD STAY IN ENGLAND, 1509-14

    21:22

  11. Chapter XI. A LIGHT OF THEOLOGY, 1514-16

    29:20

  12. Chapter XII. ERASMUS'S MIND

    18:49

  13. Chapter XIII. ERASMUS'S MIND (continued)

    17:30

  14. Chapter XIV. ERASMUS'S CHARACTER

    31:29

  15. Chapter XV. AT LOUVAIN, 1517-18

    23:22

  16. Chapter XVI. FIRST YEARS OF THE REFORMATION

    30:55

  17. Chapter XVII. ERASMUS AT BASLE, 1521-9

    26:49

  18. Chapter XVIII. CONTROVERSY WITH LUTHER AND GROWING CONSERVATISM, 1524-6

    19:24

  19. Chapter XIX. AT WAR WITH HUMANISTS AND REFORMERS, 1528-9

    25:44

  20. Chapter XX. LAST YEARS

    23:44

  21. Chapter XXI. CONCLUSION

    17:31

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Johan Huizinga published this life of Desiderius Erasmus in 1924, and it remains the portrait most readers still reach for. He traces the illegitimate son of a Rotterdam priest through the monastery he hated, the Paris lodging houses where he nearly starved, and on into the years when his Latin prose made him the most widely read author in Europe. What emerges is a man of enormous learning and awkward temperament, a reformer who wanted the church corrected rather than broken, and who was left stranded once Luther forced everyone to pick a side. Huizinga is honest about the vanity and the flinching, which is what makes the admiration convincing. Free PDF and EPUB editions are available here.

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Johan Huizinga

Huizinga argued in The Waning of the Middle Ages, published in 1919, that the fifteenth century was not the dawn of the Renaissance but the exhausted end of something else, all ceremony and violent feeling, and the book changed what cultural history was allowed to be about.

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First published
1924
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
323
Language
English
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Trenton, Owlivia, Rita Boutros and others